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To: 2111USMC
Seems like I remember reading that we took 105 howitzer barrels and filled the ends with concrete followed by high explosives with a time delay fuse.

I don't recall the use of any concrete, but otherwise you are correct. I used to know some of the guys who developed the thing for TI. They actually only did the guidance kit, but had to simulate the whole thing to check that the control gains from a standard bomb would work, or if they needed to tweak the gains some. The rest of the kit, except for that artillery barrel filled with explosives, was the then in production version of Paveway. I can't recall if they used the gains from the 1000 or 2000 pound version. It was developed in a just few months from contract award to first drop, which hit the desired target.

91 posted on 10/08/2005 9:39:28 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
Thanks El Gato.

(For a minute there I thought the fever from this flu I've got had gone to my brain.)
93 posted on 10/08/2005 9:51:01 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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